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.,'UNITE u To all whom 2f may oowem:

j ""Begit knownthat I, ELIHU cityyof Newark, county of Essex, and `State of New Jersey, have invented and produced D STATES PATENT oEEIoE.

n ELIHU BLISS, OENEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

SWIVEL son WATCH-CHAINS.

x specificati@ of Letters Patent No. 12,538, dated March 2o, 1855.

BLISS, of the a new and Improved Swivel for Watch- Chainsfand other Purposes; and I hereby declare thatthe following is. a full and eXI act descriptionof the same, and desire that the drawings hereto attached maybe taken as a part ofsaid description. The Swivel heretofore in use and as now` manufacturedby jewelers and silversmiths is constructedlwith a oint in the loop of the Swivel, which allowsone Side ofthe loop to open ,by` means ofa hinge or joint (h Figure l) so as to receive thering of the watch or other attachment as may be Seen open in Figfl, where it is represented by letter at The dotted lineslettere show its position ,when closed, it being kept closed by the screw b which isscrewed down until it embraces andholds :the end g of the side ai` `My"newfswivel is made in the same manner, with this exception, to `wit I make a different hinge or joint. Instead of fitting 25 the two `pieces of the loop so as `to lap on to each other as seen at the joint 71, Fig. l, I match the endsof the two pieces exactly together as seen at 71, Fig. 2 so that they set together the same as if the loop had been made whole, in one piece and had been sawed or out in two at the joint, and fasten them together by a pivot f Fig. 2. When the M. M. SOMMER, THEO FRELINGHUYSEN, J r. 

